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§5ji Marcus 5wison, ^Treasurer 


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WOODS PRINT. BALT 



REPORT. 



The ever memorable 19th day of April, 1861, on 
which was shed the first blood of our patriot Brothers 
of Massachusetts, by the instigators and friends of Re- 
bellion, aroused in the hearts and minds of the loyal 
portion of our people a determined spirit and sup- 
port of the Washington Government, which, after a 
few days reign of terror by the semi-Rebel City Au- 
thorities, obtained the ascendancy and proved their 
devotion to the Union by the voluntary, though ir- 
regular aid rendered to the volunteers on their way 
to defend the capital from the expected rebel horde 
of the seceded states. As the loyal feeling strength- 
ened and increased, the need of organized effort and 
services was supplied by the formation of the Union 
Relief Association on the 28th of June, 1861, which 
was perfected through the exertions of, John T. Gra- 
ham, William Robinson, John W. Butler, John B. 
Rose, S. Morris Cochran, Marcus Denison, George 
K. Quail, John A. Needles, James A. Courtney, 
James H. Wood, Job Smith, J. R. Jarboe, Darius, 
Wheeler, George C. Maund, S. F. Streeter, Heron 
C. Murray, John C. Turner, Eml. C. Crocker, Geo. C. 
Addison, J. T. Pancoast, Wm. Collison, Geo. F. 
Needham, Saml. H. FjWING, R. Stockett Mathews, 


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Henry Stockbridge, ¥m, S. Rayner, Aaron Fenton, 
A. M. Carter, Archibald Stirling, Joseph H. Au- 
doun, Saml. E. Turner, and others, who, regardless of 
the sneers of the disloyal in our midst, and relying on 
their loyal fellow-citizens for the means inaugurated 
a systematic mode of aiding, relieving and refreshing 
the patriotic soldiery while passing through our city. 
The success attending their efforts is fully established 
by their annual reports of 1862, ’3 and 7 4, wherein it is 
shown that up to the 15th of April, 1864, they had 
fed, refreshed and relieved at their rooms, and under 
the personal supervision of some one or all of the Ex- 
ecutive Committee upwards of One Million of United 
States officers, soldiers, teamsters and refugees from 
the rebel States in addition to a large number of sick, 
wounded, disabled, discharged and furloughed sol- 
diers of whom no regular account was kept. The 
first house rented by the Association in June, 1861, 
being too limited, was soon vacated and two larger 
houses rented, which were also abandoned, and the 
two larger warehouses, 118 and 120 South Eutaw-st., 
fifty feet wide, one hundred and sixty-five feet in 
depth, and four stories in height, were rented and 
fitted with all the necessary fixtures for cooking, &c. 
and capable of seating and feeding at one sitting, at one 
hour’s notice, at least one thousand soldiers, and in 
which as many as eight thousand persons have been 
comfortably and fully fed in twenty-four hours, which 
with the Hospital and Dormitories under the same roof, 
made it a perfect and model institution. The volun- 
tary services, untiring zeal, industry, labor and time 
devoted and applied to the eminently praiseworthy 


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duty of relieving our brethren, and of upholding and 
strengthening the United States Government, was 
most nobly seconded from time to time by liberal 
appropriations by the State of Maryland, the City 
of Baltimore, our patriotic fellow townsmen and the 
liberal action of the national Government in the al- 
lowances and payments for rations issued by the 
Union Relief Association. Having thus for three 
years successfully conducted the Relief rooms, they 
were, at the instance of the Government, transferred 
to the United States Government officers on the 15tli 
of April, 1864, and are now used by the Government 
as the Soldier’s Rest. Although the Union Relief As- 
sociation was thereby relieved of the arduous, yet 
grateful task of ministering to, and refreshing our 
passing soldiery, they have not relaxed in well doing, 
but have quietly continued in service as their special 
Agent, Mr. Richard King, and have appropriated and 
paid large sums monthly, which, under his supervi- 
sion, has been regularly expended in the purchase of 
useful articles, which are by him distributed amongst 
the Maryland troops in actual service, or in the army 
hospitals. 

The crowning success of our Association is justly 
due to the earnest interest of the officers and the Ex- 
ecutive Committee of the Association, of whom our 
late lamented Vice-President, Sebastian F. Streeter, 
was the life and soul, being ever foremost in sug- 
gesting, perfecting and executing every measure for 
relieving and aiding the soldiers or their families. 
His lamented death, from disease contracted while 
visiting the Army of the Potomac, deprived our 


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country of a true patriot, and our Association of one 
of its most useful members. 

A faint idea of the practical utility of the Associ- 
ation may be gleaned from the fact that their dis- 
bursements in the last ten months of active opera- 
tions exceeded the sum of one hundred thousand dol- 
lars ; and for the three years were over two hundred 
and fifty thousand dollars in money value, but above 
all value in effect, all being done by the officers and 
members of the Association, as a labor of love, with- 
out fee or reward, other than the conscientious dis- 
charge of duty to country. 


The officers of the Association are : 


ARCHIBALD STIRLING, 
SEBASTIAN F. STREETER, 
Dk. JAS. ARMITAGE, 

JOS. M. CUSHING, 

SAM’L E. TURNER, 
MARCUS DENISON, 


President. 

late Vice-President . 

Vice-President. 

Secretary. 

Secretary Ex. Com. 
Treasurer. 


EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 


Dr. JAS. ARMITAGE, 
JOSEPH H. AUDOUN, 
JOSEPH SIMMS, 

JOHN J. GRAHAM, 
JOHN W. WOODS, 

JOHN W. LEE, 

JOHN C. HIRSH, 

WM. ROBINSON, 

SAM’L E. TURNER, Sec'y, 
JOHN A. NEEDLES, 


EDWARD ROBERTS, 
EDWARD SIMONS, 

OTIS SPEAR, 

AARON FENTON, 

RICHARD KING, Agent. 

WM. COLLISON, 

GEO. F. NEEDHAM, 

JOHN SHOWACRE, 
FRANCIS W. HEATH, 
WASHINGTON K. CARSON. 



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